Rajon Pierre Rondo is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. He is a four-time NBA All-Star, had led the league in assists per game three times and has earned four All-Defensive Team honors. Rondo played two years of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats before he was drafted 21st overall by the Phoenix Suns in the 2006 NBA draft. He has also played for the Chicago Bulls, New Orleans Pelicans, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings.
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Rajon Pierre Rondo is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. Rondo played two years of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats before he was drafted 21st overall by the Phoenix Suns in the 2006 NBA draft. He was subsequently traded to the Celtics, where he played a supporting role during his rookie season. During his time in Boston, Rondo helped the Celtics advance to the NBA Finals in 2008 and 2010, winning a championship in 2008 as the team’s starting point guard. He is a four-time NBA All-Star, had led the league in assists per game three times and has earned four All-Defensive Team honors. He has also played for the Chicago Bulls, the New Orleans Pelicans, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings. He won a second NBA title with the Lakers in 2020. His father left his family when he was seven years old, and his mother worked the third shift at Philip Morris USA, a tobacco company. His mother steered him towards basketball because she felt that the sport would be less punishing on his skinny frame. He also had a 55-point game in high-school, second highest all-time in Oak Hill Academy, surpassed only by Calvin Duncan with 61. In his junior year at Eastern High School, he averaged 27. 9 points, 10. 0 rebounds and 7. 5 assists which earned him a spot on the All-State honors and was named the 7th Region Player of the Year.
He finished the 2003–04 season with a 38–0 record. He broke Jeff McInnis’s single-season school record of 303 assists, while averaging a double-double. In the 2004 Jordan Capital Classic game, he scored a total of 14 points, 4 assists and 4 rebounds in the all-star game. Rondo was also named a second-team Parade All-American. He ended his career asOak Hill Academy’s all- time assists leader in a single season with 494 assists, surpassing Mc innis. He went on to play for the Dallas Mavericks in December 2014. In 2016, he joined theChicago Bulls, before joining the New. Orleans Pelicans in 2017 and the Los. Angeles Lakers in 2018. He had a tumultuous five-month stint with the SacramentoKings in 2015, and in 2016, In 2016 he had a career-high 23 minutes against Ole Miss, despite playing just 23 minutes and 25 points against Louisville. He averaged 11 points, 6 assists and 2 steals per game in his sophomore year. He set a Kentucky record for most steals in a season, with 87 in his freshman year and made at least one steal in every game. He played 18–66 from the three-point line with a 57 percent free throw average from the start of the season to the end of the 2014-15 season. He currently plays for the Hawks. He previously played in the NBA for the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.
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